Good bulb brands

[ShiWarrior]

phillips or ring

Osram go bang within weeks, useless

 

[Adam_151]

I've come to the conclusion cheap car bulbs are not worth it, particularly Lucas branded ones

 

[Rroff]

The Philips 130% “Extreme Vision” H7s (dipped) seem to last roughly 2 and a half years for me and the H1 mains about 6 months longer in my Duster. Worth ever penny and the 5 minutes of swearing to fit as most of my night driving is on unlit rural roads with, lined by trees. October to April is brown season where it telling the muddy tarmac from muddy verges can be a challenge with decent headlight. The Osram OEMs were terrible.

As you’d have to be feeling generous to call my local minor roads “B” roads and I live off of what’s basically a tarmac over gravel farm track, folks living near better roads might get more life out of them.

I notice they’re 150% now as I just ordered a replacement pairs of H7s after noticing one had failed last night.

Philips definitely take a consumable approach with bulbs despite the long life, etc. branding but I do like them for the colour biasing which makes stuff stand out at night in a way most other bulbs don't.